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Occupied people are not unhappy people. -- Orville Dewey
Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people. -- Iimani David
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. -- K.P. Yohannan
No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential. -- Marianne Williamson
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be? -- Ernie J Zelinski
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. -- Lin Yutang
Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people. -- Judith Guest
Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly. -- Martha Beck
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one. -- H. L. Mencken
Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time. -- Frederick Lenz
No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself. -- John Ruskin
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action. -- Geraldine McCaughrean
To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose. -- Richard M. Nixon
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. -- Erich Fromm
Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it. -- Frederick Lenz
All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it? -- Peter Schjeldahl
How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that to an adolescent was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves? -- Muriel Rukeyser
Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless. -- Jonathan Haidt
I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy. -- Audrey Tautou
Unhappy people are dangerous. -- Rebecca West
Unhappy people needs your smile more than Happy people do -- Vianka Van Bokkem
It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy. -- Piero Scaruffi
Unhappy people make me feel like I've done something wrong. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future. -- Kate Morton
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. -- Gertrude Stein
I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy. -- Megan Whalen Turner
People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system. -- Julianne Malveaux
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy. -- Coco Chanel
Hollywood - it's either people who are unhappy or soon will be. -- Jonathan Ross
I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy. -- Viggo Mortensen
Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world. -- T. Harv Eker
Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people. -- Russell Simmons
I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls. -- Virginia Woolf
Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies. -- Anne Roiphe
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability. -- Polly Toynbee
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. -- Thurman Arnold
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. -- Dennis Rodman
People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are. -- Marcel Proust
I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose. -- Cassandra Clare
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at. -- Robert Breault
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. -- Haruki Murakami
Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way? -- Alice James
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be. -- Bill Crawford
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us. -- Michel de Montaigne
The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong. -- Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation. -- Christopher McCandless
People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know. -- Dany Laferriere
The trick is simply to avoid jerks. There are lots of them out there. Most people are unhappy. -- Frederick Lenz
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy. -- A. C. Benson
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. -- Sigmund Freud
Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved. -- Gaston Leroux
People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy. -- Jaden Smith
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. -- Guy de Maupassant
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. -- Wayne Dyer
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. -- Wayne Dyer
The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo! -- Kim Harrison
People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that. -- Mireille Guiliano
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. -- Simone Weil
There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy. -- Sakshi Tanwar
If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy. -- Eckhart Tolle
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. -- Dennis Prager
I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls. -- Rob Reiner
I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people. -- Simon Cowell
Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be. -- Tony Robbins
People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.' -- Mireille Guiliano
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. -- Jane Austen
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. -- Mark Twain
The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media. -- Bernie Sanders
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I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing. -- Meredith Brooks
He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people. -- Jean Rhys
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time. -- Dorothea Dix
People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms. -- David Lloyd-Jones
Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy. -- Edith Cavell
A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness. -- Vann Chow
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour. -- Anthony Doerr
All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow. -- Morrie Schwartz
If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places. -- Ezra Koenig
Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy. -- Curtis Jackson
Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it's your rules or the universe's rules. The universe is going to win. Every time. -- James Altucher
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them. -- Anton Chekhov
People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy. -- Pawan Mishra
Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle. -- Lee Clow
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? -- Philip Larkin
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way. -- Chuck Klosterman
Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time. -- Frederick Lenz
People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed. -- Penelope Wilton
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others. -- John le Carre
People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy. -- Christina Ricci
People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make it thunder. -- Georg Buchner
Everyone is psychic. People just don't know that. They think so much. They worry so much. They're so caught up in unhappy emotions. They're not still enough. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet. -- Mindy Kaling
If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy. -- Robert Muller
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. -- L. Frank Baum
Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. -- Daniel Handler
A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible. -- Simon Soloveychik
Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals. -- Meg Rosoff
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. -- Tyler Perry
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves. -- Orhan Pamuk
People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive - everything. You are everything. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Bullies are ultimately unhappy people who try to inflict pain and hate on others and are to be pitied. Once you realize that, their words can no longer hurt you. -- Frankie J. Grande
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
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Life is about trade-offs," said the lunatic. . . . "The difference between happy people and unhappy people is that happy people accept the trade-offs and unhappy people complain about them. Personally, I prefer to be happy. -- Jacob M. Appel

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